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Top posts on Progressive Geographies this week

Posted on November 16, 2014 by stuartelden

Foucault Resources An alternative map of Africa – reimagining the continent without colonisation Call For Papers – ‘Thinking with Algorithms’, Durham, 26-27 Feb 2015 Video of my ‘Foucault, Subjectivity and Truth’ lecture at Nottingham Contemporary The Fabric of Space: Matthew … Continue reading →

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The Fabric of Space: Matthew Gandy’s new book on water, modernity and the urban imagination

Posted on November 15, 2014 by stuartelden

Originally posted on Jeremy J Schmidt:
This looks like a really interesting new title from MIT Press from Matthew Gandy. From the publisher’s website: “Water lies at the intersection of landscape and infrastructure, crossing between visible and invisible domains of…

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An alternative map of Africa – reimagining the continent without colonisation

Posted on November 14, 2014 by stuartelden

Originally posted on Progressive Geographies:
An intriguing map of Africa, imaging how it might have looked had it not been colonised. This might be a good spur to class discussion, though one thing that should immediately be noted is that…

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Public Funding for berfrois.com – please consider donating

Posted on November 13, 2014 by stuartelden

I’ve now published five pieces on the http://www.berfrois.com website – the latest, with links to the others, is here. But I’m also a reader of the material they publish – very wide ranging, regularly interesting, and an important alternative to … Continue reading →

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The quick death of slow scholarship?

Posted on November 13, 2014 by stuartelden

Originally posted on Landscape Surgery:
Travels into Print. First manuscript draft (February, 2013). Since joining Landscape Surgery in 2010, I have had a seemingly every-present item of business on which to offer updates during our fortnightly “newsrounds”: the progress made…

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The politics of speed

Posted on November 13, 2014 by stuartelden

Originally posted on Politics Reconsidered:
By Philippe Blanchard The territory of the University of Warwick should be split in a few years by the HS2, a High speed train that will join London to Birmingham, Manchester and Leeds. Political, economic…

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Searching for the sublime in everyday life: Ryan on Quinney

Posted on November 12, 2014 by stuartelden

A new review at the Society and Space open site.

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New Antipode papers available now

Posted on November 11, 2014 by stuartelden

Originally posted on AntipodeFoundation.org:
The first two issues of Antipode 47 have now been sent to the publishers. They’ll be available in Wiley Online Library in early 2015; the papers, though, can be read now. There are great essays…

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“Foucault, Subjectivity and Truth”, University of Nottingham Centre for Critical Theory lecture, Nottingham Contemporary, 12 November 2014

Posted on November 11, 2014 by stuartelden

Originally posted on Progressive Geographies:
On 12 November 2014, I’ll be giving a University of Nottingham Centre for Critical Theory lecture at Nottingham Contemporary gallery. The title is “Foucault, Subjectivity and Truth”, and I’ll be speaking about the most recently…

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Henning Schmidgen’s Bruno Latour in Pieces

Posted on November 10, 2014 by stuartelden

Originally posted on PHILOSOPHY IN A TIME OF ERROR:
Translated by Gloria Custance, I was disappointed by this work, which I hoped would be the necessary background for providing links among Latour’s disparate works, from his PhD in philosophy of religion…

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